Arts & Culture
FORT GREENE – Administrative and cinema employees at the Brooklyn Academy of Music [https://www.bam.org/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpbnY8sHp4gIVh5-zCh1nPwwkEAAYAyAAEgKvw_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds] (BAM) have voted “yes” to joining the UAW Local 2110 [http://www.2110uaw.org] (United Auto Workers) union. Brooklyn Academy of Music (Photo by Pamela Wong/
Bushwick
The intersection of Broadway and Union, where a motorcyclist was killed over the weekend (Screenshot via Google Maps)WILLIAMSBURG – A motorcycle crash over the weekend claimed a man’s life, making the third fatality for motorcyclists in North Brooklyn in recent weeks. Angel Perez, 39, was riding his motorcycle through
News
WILLIAMSBURG – Seven workers at The Williams, a luxury-rental development in South Williamsburg, are looking for what they’re owed—about $200,000 in back pay, they said. Yesterday evening, outside the building at 282 South 5th Street, members of the 32BJ service workers union gathered in solidarity to rally for
Central Brooklyn
(Photo via RWDSU/twitter)Today, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that he is running to be elected to a full term. Gonzalez has led the Kings County District Attorney’s Office since last October when District Attorney Ken Thompson died after a battle with cancer [/brooklyns-first-african-american-district-attorney-dies-cancer-bensonhurst/]. Gonzalez was chosen
Bensonhurst
Photo via zhenry49 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BIs16nrjZTf/?tagged=schoolbuses&hl=en]Roughly 900 city school bus drivers and attendants voted to authorize a strike Wednesday night after rejecting a proposed contract from management, DNA Info [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20161027/red-hook/school-bus-strike-nyc] first reported. Six hundred
Golden Farm
[/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kbk_goldenfarm_protest_peterwalshprojects_flickr.jpg] Following almost two years of neighbors, civic leaders, and Occupy Kensington [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Kensington/513510922042949] members refusing to shop at Golden Farm [/tag/golden-farm] because of deep-rooted concerns over labor practices at the shop, the boycott is
outsourcing
Source: Glabb via Wikimedia CommonsFacing a torrent of criticism from local politicians and union steel leaders, the MTA issued a thorough defense of their plans to use Chinese steel products in their Verrazano-Narrows Bridge renovation project. MTA Chairman and CEO Tom Prendergast wrote a letter [http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/